Heroic US airmen save babies from burning building by throwing them out window SOUTH KOREA: A Mother and Her Three Children Jumped From Burning Building in South Korea April 30 Mother, 3 children fall from burning building in incredible escape A Mother and Her Three Children Jumped From Burning Building in South Korea April 30 Civil engineer Bill Frost captured the incredible footage of a mother and her three children falling from a burning building in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on April 30. The mother dangled her children out of the window of a fourth-floor apartment, dropping them to a crowd below, as smoke billowed from two floors below, before jumping herself, according to a report. All four of them survived. The scenario, captured in mobile phone footage, is a mother's nightmare. The Enyioko family visit with 1st Sgt. Melanie Scott and Master Sgt. Michael Henry, senior noncommissioned officers assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, May 2, 2016 in Songtan. Scott and Henry were among a group of service members who caught Precious Enyioko and her three children, April 29, 2016 as they jumped from the fourth floor of a burning building in Songtan, South Korea. On the fourth story of a burning building in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, a woman dangles her baby out the window as smoke billows from two floors below. Onlookers scream and wave their hands as the 30-year-old mother holds out the terrified infant -- the child's legs kicking furiously -- before dropping her to the crowd. Another child follows, then another, before the woman herself leaps from the window -- the only escape route. Remarkably, all survived without injury Saturday, caught safely on blankets in a rescue effort orchestrated by passing U.S. service personnel stationed at nearby Osan Air Base. U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Daniel Raimondo told CNN he was walking to dinner Saturday when he saw clouds of smoke and set off in that direction. On assessing the scene, he and a colleague discussed how to help and resolved to get some blankets from a nearby store. They corralled others to help hold the blankets, then tried to persuade the mother to drop her children to safety. First Sgt. Melanie Scott said the woman was understandably reluctant to let go of her children, ages 1, 3 and 4. "You could tell she was scared. She didn't want to." Raimondo said that the "last baby was the most difficult in my eyes, she just wouldn't let her go for some reason." He said he repeatedly begged the mother: "Please just throw the baby down!" "I remember her screaming (at) the baby, 'I love you, I love you. ...' Next thing you know she dropped the baby." By this time, the mother had to jump. "The smoke and the fire was just horrendous," Raimondo said. "You could barely even see her at that point."

• published: 03 May 2016
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